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Category: News
Jun 25
Data in the City
Data in the City: Ideas Challenge is an online Challenge which crowdsources for ideas that use government data to create innovative apps. https://ideas.ecitizen.gov.sg/a/pages/ditc-home Note: Check out some of the idea submitted by our members. * https://ideas.ecitizen.gov.sg/a/dtd/Buddy-App-for-Home-Patients/66639-26226
Jun 22
3M Patents surpasses 100,000 worldwide
* 3M Co. has reached an inventor’s milestone by accumulating 100,000 patents worldwide.
Jun 21
Singapore 35 plus entrepreneurs
* In Singapore…entrepreneurs are older – 35-and-up adults who are abandoning their nine-to-five jobs to start their own companies…
Jun 20
US Supreme Court reaches landmark patent ruling
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27926353 * The judges ruled unanimously that a software patent was invalid because all it did was take an existing technique and add the idea of doing it on a computer. * … a major setback to so-called patent trolls.
May 13
GE’s Fallonventions: iHead, Hollow Flashlight, Puff-n-Fluff Dog Dryer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys0WVOPmA6g
May 07
Open source Innovation
* These hackathons are conducted over a period of two-and-a-half days. People of different skill sets are matched in teams to work on new ideas and come up with a working product or demo on the last day… * …hackathons.. work culture at Silicon valley, home to.. Google, Facebook.. allow their staff to work on …
May 05
Rock’R turn any surface into a loud speaker
http://youtu.be/7OWLzlViYss http://www.bloomberg.com/video/this-tiny-gadget-turns-anything-into-music-speaker-8SfHGe0KQrmVnblYn8cZnA.html
Apr 29
Reinventing the toothbrush: Toof-inger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCpnNyrmRY http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/04/28/3818904/apex-inventor-entrepreneur-is.html …Steven Walther…has re-invented the toothbrush. …designed to be held by two fingers… …the gum lines and teeth enamel people could save by holding their brush with two fingers instead of a fist.